There's plenty of real punk bands still out there. Those examples are horrible. And punk isn't about how you dress. I play punk rock, but I work in an office during the day and wear khakis.
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Is punk dead?
- Thread starter RexNFX79
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Motorhead? Punk, or not punk? I was never sure. I had never heard of them until I picked up a punk compilation album featuring them, nearly 20 years ago. What about GBH? Are they still around? Love them.
PennyWise, Anti-Flag, Misfits, Distillers, Rancid, Bad Brains, Operation Ivy, Transplants, old Blink-182, Tiger Army, Social Distortion. They are punk. Most of them are still with us. Minus Distillers, and Operation Ivy etc. As long as their here punks here.
"Post-whatever" meaning "after-whatever".
So if it's post-punk,then it's after punk.Which means either punk is dead or it's been on vacation for awhile.
So if it's post-punk,then it's after punk.Which means either punk is dead or it's been on vacation for awhile.
Motorhead is, universally, the metal band that "its ok for punks to like". Meaning they're claimed by metal, but there's a lot of things about them that made them very attractive to the punk crowd back in the 80's, so I'm not surprised they would appear on a comp.
I think GBH still tours, or at least still did as of a couple years ago.
punk isn't dead, you just have to look. if those bands are that guy's idea of punk music, he is pathetic. green day, yeah at one point i'd say were punk. the rest, nope. my idea of punk is ramones, sex pistols, bad brains, dead kennedys, etc. talkin bout skaterboys and lifestyles of the rich and famous isn't punk in my book! its still alive, in bands like pennywise, antiflag, rancid, nofx etc. maybe if this guy would stop watching mtv and look to the underground music scene i think he'll find more punk groups then he thinks.
LONG LIVE PUNK!!!
Punk is dead because you can only write so many 3-chord songs about sniffing glue and messing up the system.
I mean, it may be in permanent state of zombie-hood, but it's still dead.
Face it; it's nostalgia music. Neo bands simply confirm it.
Disagree? Look at the same thing going on with Prog.
Having said that, there's a place and a theater for all styles.
Disagree? Look at the same thing going on with Prog.
Having said that, there's a place and a theater for all styles.
its punk just as zz top is rock though it sounds nothing like little richard. pop punk is just a mainstream version of punk still the same basic style
Typically people who claim that punk is dead either dont know what punk is, or are jaded windbags. Punk will be around as long as there are kids picking up guitars. If its dead to you fine. Try telling that to the 35 kids having a basement show in Iowa, or the four bands putting on a show at a Masons Lodge in Kentucky. Punk is alive and well.
They mean "dead" as in "not doing anything new." Punk, as a genre, will be around, but it will never do anything new. There's nothing wrong with this as long as you're having fun.
I disagree with this also. There are a lot of great bands doing a lot of things that buck the typical punk sound.
I do agree that playing music is all about fun.
Iggy is dead, just twitching about post mortem. After seeing him on the henry rollins show a while back, I was more sad than anything.
There will always be room with the young folks for angry pissed off rock and roll. Whether it's worth a crap or not is up to those who make it.
+10000000 I am 53 yo. I have been into the music for a long time. When the geeks were going to the discos we were jammin. You should see my 15 yo son and his friends in my garage (my basement now that it is cold) Punk is not dead. Any more then rock & roll is dead because the Beatles are dead and broke up.
Catch 22
Broadsiders
Devilers
Evil Conduct (they have alot of old school 3 chord punk but also alot of new ways of playing 3 chord mixed in)
SuperYob
A huge part of Punks original power was it's ability to scare the establishment.
"Normal" people were shocked and terrified by punk because punk represented a future where they were no longer in power.
In this post 911 world, those bands seem quaint at best.
Today there are real people to be scared of, and we've been introduced to real terror.
Whatever gets called punk rock today is just viewed as kids being kids. It is neutered, and not shocking or a threat to anyone or anything.
All IMHO, of course.
"Normal" people were shocked and terrified by punk because punk represented a future where they were no longer in power.
In this post 911 world, those bands seem quaint at best.
Today there are real people to be scared of, and we've been introduced to real terror.
Whatever gets called punk rock today is just viewed as kids being kids. It is neutered, and not shocking or a threat to anyone or anything.
All IMHO, of course.
